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When I say that not very much happens in Springtime with Badger & Vole it’s most assuredly not a critical observation. Nor am I damning it with faint praise by…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
A graphic biography of the titular marine conservation organisation and its environmental activist founder Paul Watson, The Sea Shepherd marks one of long-time UK small presser Sean Azzopardi’s semi-regular digressions…
A reminder that submissions are open for the 2021 LDComics Women’s Graphic Novel Awards. Full details in the press release below. Work should be submitted via the LDComics website here….
Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, June 3rd for with guest artists Natasha Natarajan and…
One of the most curious elements of our lockdown/pandemic existences has been the way it has forced us to examine the way we perceive the passing of time. Months merge…
Trying to describe My Begging Chart, the new book by Keiler Roberts, is like trying to capture what everyday life is like: we all seem to think we can explain…
Tying into the current exhibition of Natasha Natarajan’s work in the ‘In Focus’ space at London’s Cartoon Museum, Saturday June 5th sees a special ‘Panel by Panel’ event with Natasha…
Our Crowdfunding Corner feature is back again today as we continue to actively spotlight the more intriguing, exciting, experimental and daring uses of the form that we spot on the…
While national pride is a philosophy I have never found myself able to subscribe to, a sense of national shame – particularly in the five years since 2016 in the…
Beatnik Buenos Aires informs us early on that “at night we are all ashes. We seek a fire that gives up meaning.” Amongst the torrents of cigarette smoke inside dimly-lit…
Creator Megan Huang (Princeless, Jia and the Nian Monster) launches a promising sci-fi/fantasy adventure with Rangers of the Divide. The nations of Veil and Ryllion are continuously at war, yet…
There’s something about troubled families that clearly attracts Adam Smith and Matt Fox. It is a theme the writer-illustrator team last explored on Long Walk to Valhalla a little over…
One of our fave indie/alt comics publishers Silver Sprocket have some big news today about a new addition to their ranks as Ari Yarwood becomes their first Managing Editor. Full…
A few years back I took a look at Bethany Hall’s allegorical comic Cosmo Hotel at Broken Frontier, a confidently presented piece of extended visual metaphor that I described as…
In ‘Covers Album’ we ask comics creators, publishers and commentators to pick three of their favourite comic covers …but with a small twist. One must be chosen for aesthetic reasons,…
From H.G. Wells’s classic novella to Avengers: Endgame––love them or loathe them––tales of time travel are a staple in science-fiction. The difficulty lies in creating a narrative that does something…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
One of the rising stars of the indie comics scene Shazleen Khan has just launched the Kickstarter for volume 3 of the print edition of webcomics series Buuza!!, the much…
Fictional Father, by legendary Canadian cartoonist Joe Ollmann, declares its intention at the outset, its ingenious cover image pointing to what lies within. This is a faux memoir, supposedly written…
“We Wanted to Publish the Books We Wanted to Read” – Outgoing Avery Hill Co-Founder Dave White Looks Back on 14 Years at the UK’s Game-Changing Indie Comics PublisherJune 8, 2026
“There is No Singular or Correct Intersex Narrative” – LJ Nakamura on Intersex Representation and the Liberating Nature of Pulp Sci-FiJune 4, 2026
“We Want Trans and Queer Teens to Feel Seen and Understood” – Tilly Bridges and Susan Bridges on Their New Graphic Novel ‘Just Another Summer’ and the Collaborative Writing ProcessJune 2, 2026
“A Room Full of Comics People is a True Joy to See!” – Marc Jackson on Bringing MACC-POW! to Macclesfield and the Resurgence of Kids Comics in the UKMay 25, 2026
“Our Work is Rooted in South Asian Identity and Community-Led Histories” – Exploring the Publishing Output and Ethos of Kutty Press with Bhavani Balasubramanyam and Deepesh SangtaniMay 18, 2026
